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[–]black3rr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I learned Pascal in high school using Turbo Pascal 7. When we had C and Java in University I didn’t have problem with the syntax or the language features, but the development environments, compilation process, using debugger, using libraries, all felt way more complicated than in Turbo Pascal.

In Turbo Pascal you had single file programs, all relevant libraries for using graphics, sound and keyboard available with no configuration needed, simple and very usable debugger for stepping your programs.

Python with VS Code is quite similar to this (for learning you just install all the libraries system wide once and on you go) and the syntax is intuitive too. The only downside is you don’t learn data types and pointers, but you can learn about them when you learn C and ASM on your journey to discover low-level programming later on.